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Assault in the watch-house

The AFP have put out a media release informing us that one of their own is to be charged with “assault occasioning actual bodily harm, recklessly inflict actual bodily harm and assault” (nice to see the police inability to use the English language is still alive and well).

It is alleged that a 46 year old officer got a little willing with the capsicum spray in the watch-house on 26 October and was suspended the next day.

As a defender of the English language myself, I should point out that when they say stupid stuff like “assault occasioning actual bodily harm, recklessly inflict actual bodily harm and assault” they’re actually naming the charge in law, not describing what happened. If you read it with ‘assault’ as a verb not a noun, you can kind of see what’s going on. This is why you still hear cops talking about people being charged with “drive in a manner dangerous” when no-one else on the planet still talks that way.

This is a perfect example as to why Mortein ought be banned across the coutnry. I am sure this poor soul was simply trying to knock off a pesky fly that was annoying him, he just picked up the wrong can of chemical.